Build Your Own RoyalRoad to EPUB Converter

Welcome back to Let’s Reinvent the Wheel. In our first hands-on project, we build a Python-based tool that lets you scrape RoyalRoad stories and convert them into EPUB files. Perfect for offline reading on e-readers.

This project is aimed at beginner-to-intermediate developers looking to sharpen their skills while creating something genuinely useful. As a result we get a tiny tool, which leans on a few powerful libraries like requests, BeautifulSoup, and EbookLib.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, we:

• Analyze the HTML structure of RoyalRoad story pages
• Use requests to fetch page content
• Extract and clean data with BeautifulSoup
• Format chapters and metadata for EPUB generation
• Use EbookLib to output a polished .epub file
• Package everything into a script you can reuse or extend

This is a full walkthrough of a minimal but complete content pipeline - scraping to final EPUB.

Project Code

The full source code is available here: royalroad2epub

Documentation

These are helpful docs of the libraries which we used in this video:

• Requests documentation
• BeautifulSoup documentation
• EbookLib documentation

Stay in the Loop

Have questions, ideas, or something you’d like me to reinvent next? Drop a comment on the video!

Thanks for watching, and until next time. Keep reinventing!